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To help facilitate communication between people interested in regional downscaling of climate models in the Arctic and Antarctic, we have…

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Final report of the Future Earth Transition Team Published

- CliC is a core project affiliated with Future Earth

Future Earth has just published the final report of the Transition Team, the group of experts that led the initial design of the research initiative on global sustainability.
 
The team comprised seventeen members from a wide range of disciplines and countries, and also included ex-officio members representing the main partners of the Science and Technology Alliance for Global Sustainability.
 
Co-chaired by Johan Rockström and Diana Liverman, the team proposed a vision for integrated and solutions-oriented research that can support a transformation towards global sustainability over the coming decade. The report sets out the initial design of Future Earth, comprising a research framework and governance structure, preliminary reflections on communication and engagement, capacity-building and education strategies, and implementation guidelines.
 
Structuring the research agenda around three central themes – dynamic planet; global development; transformations towards sustainability – the report details the key research questions that will be addressed in each area. At its core lies a new partnership between science and society to co-design research priorities and co-produce knowledge.
 

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Antarctic glaciology webinar – 5 November 2013

Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) invite you to participate in the Antarctic glaciology webinar highlighting recent glaciological studies in Antarctica on 5 November 2013 at 16:00 GMT. To reserve a spot in the webinar, please follow the link: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/394912104

This webinar is a follow-up of the first International Workshop on Antarctic Ice Rises held in Tromsø late August this year, with support from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), Climate and Cryosphere Project (CliC), Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS), British Antarctic Survey and Norwegian Polar Institute’s Center for Ice, Climate and Ecosystems. Presentation video, slides, posters and Frostbytes are available on the workshop web-site: http://www.climate-cryosphere.org/meetings/past-meetings/ice-rises-2013

Holocene glacial history of the Weddell Sea: the record in the ice rise
Neil Ross | Lecturer in Physical Geography, University of Newcastle, UK.
For presentation at Ice Rises [PDF Presentation] [Watch Video]

Weakening contract between ice shelves and ice rises caused by fracture
Christopher Borstad | Post Doc, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
See Borstad's Ice Rises FrostByte

Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf: Bathymetry and Ice Thickness
Kiya Riverman | Penn State University, USA
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Geologic control of Whillans Ice Stream grounding lines and the Crary Ice Rise, inferred from ground-based gravity measurements
Atsuhiro Muto | Penn State University, USA
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CliC initiator Awarded the Volvo Environment Prize

The Chinese glaciologist and climate scientist Dr. Qin Dahe has been awarded this year's Volvo Environment Prize. The award winner is a key contributor to the fifth assessment report from the UN climate panel (IPPC), whose first section, the "Physical Science Basis", was released in September. He attracted wide attention last year with a report on how climate change leads to more extreme weather events, the first report to show scientifically what many had already suspected, that extreme weather and climate phenomena have become more frequent over the last 50 years. Dr. Qin Dahe was member of the ACSYS/CliC Scientific Steering Group from 2001-2008, started the Asian CliC chapter and was central in the arrangements of the First CliC Science Conference held in 2005 in Bejing, China.

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